local government

The following are two independent replies to 'A Reply to Two Comrades from Nottingham'. Both are written in a personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect the views of other members of Nottingham Campaign Against the Job Seekers Allowance (recently renamed Nottingham Claimants Action). The first, "Doling It Out", is by one of the Two Comrades, the second, "State Power and Class Solidarity", is by two members of…

A response to the article 'Only Doing Your Job?' on campaigns against the Job Seekers Allowance, which appeared in issue 22 of Subversion. The debate (which is picked up in subsequent articles in this issue) is especially concerned with the role of workers in benefits offices.

We disagree with their electoralism but reproduce this text for reference. Italian translation of…

These events were not an aberration from democracy, because simply the USA were never democratic in…

Article on gentrification in the London Borough of Hackney, from Black Flag #222…

An essay written in 2018 and updated in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York…

In October 1988 Eric Pickles and his Tory group took control of Bradford Council with a radical programme designed to "wipe out municipal…

The state and capital always attack the freedom of the social base, steal its labor and resources…

From the management of June 2013 uprising to Bolsonaro’s ordered revolt.

Cleaners organised in the United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union are walking…

There is an ever-growing stream of media commentary on the Grenfell fire, increasing daily as the public enquiry unfolds. There are some elements…